TheMojoPin
08-16-2003, 09:37 PM
And yes, feel free to choose "Cop Rock" if you feel you must.
I've been watching the newly released DVD collection of the first two seasons of "Homicide: Life On The Streets", and all it's done is strengthen my feelings that it is THE greatest cop show of all time. Funny, brutal, real and, best of all, NOT overdramatic and full of neverending, bloated plotlines (At least not for the first four years), I don't think anything besides "Hill Street Blues" (And maybe "Murder One") has even come close. Where else are you gonna find a show where the new character, the one the viewer is supposed to be following as the series begins, spends the first few episodes by trying to solve the brutal murder of a little girl...and ultimately fails? Hell, one of the episodes is nothing but him and his partner grilling a suspect in an interrogation room. Where else do you have a cop show where one of the main characters leaves the show in the third season...by killing himself?
Best of all, I love the Baltimore setting. And given that it was actually shot there (Even shows like "ER", supposedly set in Chicago, are never there except for rare external shots) and produced by Charm City native Barry Levinson really helpd lend a sense of "realness" to the series. 95% of the extras are all Baltimore natives or real off-duty local cops, so everything just "feels" right.
I honestly loved this show, and I'm STILL mad it's off the air after all these years.
So what's YOUR favorite?
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I've been watching the newly released DVD collection of the first two seasons of "Homicide: Life On The Streets", and all it's done is strengthen my feelings that it is THE greatest cop show of all time. Funny, brutal, real and, best of all, NOT overdramatic and full of neverending, bloated plotlines (At least not for the first four years), I don't think anything besides "Hill Street Blues" (And maybe "Murder One") has even come close. Where else are you gonna find a show where the new character, the one the viewer is supposed to be following as the series begins, spends the first few episodes by trying to solve the brutal murder of a little girl...and ultimately fails? Hell, one of the episodes is nothing but him and his partner grilling a suspect in an interrogation room. Where else do you have a cop show where one of the main characters leaves the show in the third season...by killing himself?
Best of all, I love the Baltimore setting. And given that it was actually shot there (Even shows like "ER", supposedly set in Chicago, are never there except for rare external shots) and produced by Charm City native Barry Levinson really helpd lend a sense of "realness" to the series. 95% of the extras are all Baltimore natives or real off-duty local cops, so everything just "feels" right.
I honestly loved this show, and I'm STILL mad it's off the air after all these years.
So what's YOUR favorite?
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2% << December boys got it BAD >> "You might tell some lies about the good times we've had/But I've kissed your mother twice...and now I'm working on your dad..."